Luigi Pirandello Quotes

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is...

You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you ...

The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a...

Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to tho...

Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality ...

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

...and here, in this if I always lose myself.

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously ...

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious ...

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday ...

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never ...

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through m...

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to som...

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to r...

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too ...

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in...